Numerical sort on the 2nd key field with offset 14.
Pipe this to your working awk.
Hi MadeInGermany,
Your suggestion may be exactly what the OP needs.
When I read the 1st message in this thread, I was under the impression that the "error_type_X" strings were placeholders for arbitrary (not necessarily all the same length) strings followed by "@" and a numeric string. If my assumption is correct, there will have to be some data manipulation before the input can be sorted because the UNIX sort command doesn't allow for a different field separator to be specified for each sort key because the position of the "@" in field 2 won't be a constant. However, if the 1st field is always 5 characters (which I also assumed was not true), then the command:
might work even if the "error_type_X" strings are not a constant width.
I think we at least explained why beca123456's use of awk's asort() function is producing the output it produces.
Hopefully, the discussion in this thread so far will either help the OP get a working solution or encourage the OP to give us a better description of the actual data that might appear in the input file so we can work on a real solution instead of guessing at what needs to be done.
Hi,
I am writing a BASH shell script. I have an array that will contain IN ANY ORDER the following elements: DAY 8D MO NS.
I would like to erase the element DAY, but since the order of the elements in the array are random, I will not know which element # DAY is (ie it's not as simple as... (3 Replies)
Hi,
My doubt is how to access array elements..
Situation is as below:
#!/bin/ksh
set -x
typeset -i x=0
typeset -i y=0
typeset -i BID=0
typeset -i count=0
while ] ; do
x=`expr $x + 1`;
hwmgr show scsi > scsi.tmp
while read line; do
set... (1 Reply)
How can I get my array to understand the double-quotes I'm passing into it are to separate text strings and not part of an element? here's what I'm working with...
db2 -v connect to foo
db2 -x "select '\"' || stats_command || '\",' from db2law1.parallel_runstats where tabname = 'BAZ'"
set... (4 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
Any simple code can simplify the code below, please advice. Thanks
# cat 2.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my @aaaaa = <DATA>;
my @uids;
foreach (@aaaaa) {
my @ccccc = split (",", $_);
push @uids, $ccccc;... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have an array containing following sample information
@array = qw (chr02 chr02 chr02 chr02 chr02 chr03 chr03 chr04 chr04 chr05 chr05 chr05 chr07 chr07) I need to replace all duplicate entries by an underscore to get the following output@array = qw (chr02 _ _ _ _ chr03 _ chr04 _ chr05 _ _... (4 Replies)
Is there a way to print multiple array elements without iterating through the array using bash?
Can you do something like...
echo ${array}and get all those separate elements from the array? (2 Replies)
Hi I have two arrays :
@arcb= (450,625,720,645);
@arca=(625,645);
I need to remove the elements of @arca from elements of @arcb so that the content of @arcb will be (450,720).
Can anyone sugget me how to perform this operation?
The code I have used is this :
my @arcb=... (3 Replies)
I have a script which takes backup of some configuration files on my server. It does that by using an array which contains the complete path to the files to backup.
It copys the files to a pre defined dir. Each "program" has it's own folder, ex. apache.conf is being copied to /predefined... (7 Replies)
Hi
I wanted to print random elements from an array at bash shell
I use the following code, but I always see first element getting printed
#!/bin/bash
c=1
expressions=(pink red white yellow purple)
while ]; do
echo "The value of RANDOM is $RANDOM"
selectedexpression=${expressions}]};... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
need help with reading the array and sum of the array elements.
given an array of integers of size N . You need to print the sum of the elements in the array, keeping in mind that some of those integers may be quite large.
Input Format
The first line of the input consists of an... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nishantrefound
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LEARN ABOUT V7
sort
SORT(1) General Commands Manual SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort or merge files
SYNOPSIS
sort [ -_________x ] [ +pos1 [ -pos2 ] ] ... [ -o name ] [ -T directory ] [ name ] ...
DESCRIPTION
Sort sorts lines of all the named files together and writes the result on the standard output. The name `-' means the standard input. If
no input files are named, the standard input is sorted.
The default sort key is an entire line. Default ordering is lexicographic by bytes in machine collating sequence. The ordering is
affected globally by the following options, one or more of which may appear.
b Ignore leading blanks (spaces and tabs) in field comparisons.
d `Dictionary' order: only letters, digits and blanks are significant in comparisons.
f Fold upper case letters onto lower case.
i Ignore characters outside the ASCII range 040-0176 in nonnumeric comparisons.
n An initial numeric string, consisting of optional blanks, optional minus sign, and zero or more digits with optional decimal point, is
sorted by arithmetic value. Option n implies option b.
r Reverse the sense of comparisons.
tx `Tab character' separating fields is x.
The notation +pos1 -pos2 restricts a sort key to a field beginning at pos1 and ending just before pos2. Pos1 and pos2 each have the form
m.n, optionally followed by one or more of the flags bdfinr, where m tells a number of fields to skip from the beginning of the line and n
tells a number of characters to skip further. If any flags are present they override all the global ordering options for this key. If the
b option is in effect n is counted from the first nonblank in the field; b is attached independently to pos2. A missing .n means .0; a
missing -pos2 means the end of the line. Under the -tx option, fields are strings separated by x; otherwise fields are nonempty nonblank
strings separated by blanks.
When there are multiple sort keys, later keys are compared only after all earlier keys compare equal. Lines that otherwise compare equal
are ordered with all bytes significant.
These option arguments are also understood:
c Check that the input file is sorted according to the ordering rules; give no output unless the file is out of sort.
m Merge only, the input files are already sorted.
o The next argument is the name of an output file to use instead of the standard output. This file may be the same as one of the
inputs.
T The next argument is the name of a directory in which temporary files should be made.
u Suppress all but one in each set of equal lines. Ignored bytes and bytes outside keys do not participate in this comparison.
Examples. Print in alphabetical order all the unique spellings in a list of words. Capitalized words differ from uncapitalized.
sort -u +0f +0 list
Print the password file (passwd(5)) sorted by user id number (the 3rd colon-separated field).
sort -t: +2n /etc/passwd
Print the first instance of each month in an already sorted file of (month day) entries. The options -um with just one input file make the
choice of a unique representative from a set of equal lines predictable.
sort -um +0 -1 dates
FILES
/usr/tmp/stm*, /tmp/*: first and second tries for temporary files
SEE ALSO uniq(1), comm(1), rev(1), join(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Comments and exits with nonzero status for various trouble conditions and for disorder discovered under option -c.
BUGS
Very long lines are silently truncated.
SORT(1)